Julia Serano: Excluded

USA 2013, 327 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities. In each case, exclusion is based on the premise ... Weiterlesen

John Corvino: What's Wrong with Homosexuality?

USA 2013, 170 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Oxford University Press
Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the bible condemn it? Does it matter whether gay people are »born this way«? The author has traversed the country responding to such questions. In this book, he makes the case for the moral value of same-sex relationships while offering insight into the ongoing culture wars. Many opponents object that same-sex relionships were morally wrong, or ... Weiterlesen

Shiri Eisner: Bi

Notes for a Bisexual Revolution. USA 2013, 345 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Seal
Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. In this forward-thinking and eye-opening examination, feminist bisexual and genderqueer activist Shiri Eisner takes readers on a journey through the many aspects of the meanings and politics of bisexuality. Informed by feminist, transgender, and queer theory, as well as ... Weiterlesen

Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor (eds.): The Marrying Kind?

Debating Same-Sex Marriage Within the Lesbian and Gay Movement. USA 2013, 416 pp., brochure, € 34.99
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University of Minnesota Press
As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely debated within the LGBT community. This book draws on empirical research to examine these debates and how they are affecting marriage equality campaigns. The essays in this volume analyze the rhetoric, strategies, ... Weiterlesen

Ellen DeGeneres: Seriously ... I'm Kidding

USA 2013, 243 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Hachette
The much-loved entertainer opens up about her personal life, her talk show, and joining the judges' table of »American Idol«. DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in »Mr. Wrong«, appeared in »EDtv« and »The Love Letter«, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film »Finding Nemo«, ... Weiterlesen

Stephanie Staal: Reading Women

How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life. USA 2011, 278 pp., brochure, € 15.39
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The first time Stephanie Staal read feminist authors like Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, she was a 19-year-old student taking a Feminism 101 class, her eyes as wide as the horizon of limitless possibility that stretched in front of her. A decade later, Stephanie is a wife and mother who has traded the stability and independence of full-time work ... Weiterlesen

Geoffrey Robertson: The Case of the Pope

Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse. UK/USA 2010, 228pp., brochure, € 5.99
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This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy ... Weiterlesen

Moe Meyer: An Archaeology of Posing

Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. USA 2010, 221pp., brochure, € 28.69
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - ... Weiterlesen

Susan S. Douglas: Enlightened Sexism

The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done. USA 2010, 355 pp., hardbound, € 21.59
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This look at our pop-culture icons reveals the unfinished business of the women's movement. Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must be either strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. This book takes readers on a journey through TV Programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage ... Weiterlesen

Chris Glaser: As My Own Soul

The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriage. USA 2009, 150 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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Ever wonder why marriage for same-gender couples generates such passion? Why is it so important to gay people? And why is it felt as an attack on »traditional« marriage by others? Writing accessibly for the general reader, the author narrows it down - first to taboos around sexuality, then to taboos around the sacred. Glaser presents the many contexts in ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Reborn

Early Diaries 1947-1963. UK 2009, 320 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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This first volume of Sontag's private journals is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontag's writing - extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity. At 15, when these journals began, Sontag already displayed her ferocious intellect and hunger for experience and culture, though we're watching Sontag grow into one of the century's leading minds. Sontag details her ... Weiterlesen

David M. Halperin, Valerie Traub (eds.): Gay Shame

USA 2009, 395 pp. + DVD »Gay Shame«, brochure , € 79.95
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For half a century, »gay pride« has been the rallying cry of the lesbian and gay rights movement. But has something been lost in the drive to transform homosexuality from a perversion to an identity - the sort of identity that decent people can be proud of? Has homosexuality become too respectable for its own good? This book seeks to ... Weiterlesen

Heather Love: Feeling Backward

Loss and the Politics of Queer History. USA/UK 2009, 196 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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Harvard University Press
Now that, in the latest twist of tolerance, gays are required to flaunt their well-adjustedness, this book may feel backward indeed as it cotemplates the pain, anger, isolation, and sheer crankiness prominent in literary figures of our queer past. It weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Ching, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor (eds.): The Scandal of Susan Sontag

USA 2009, 264 pp., brochure, € 33.95
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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature - the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects - theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness - and courted celebrity and ... Weiterlesen

Kate Clinton: I Told You so

USA 2009, 189 pp., hardbound, € 19.99
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This is a hilarious, bittersweet and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They're perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you'll never be voted off the island. Clinton's new collection spans topics like: ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: At the Same Time

USA 2008, 256 pp., pb., € 22.95
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Penguin UK
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. »At the Same Time« gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the ... Weiterlesen

Dagmar Herzog: Sex in Crisis

USA 2008, 249 pp., hardbound, € 21.39
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The religious right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evengelical christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no. Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear ... Weiterlesen

Ellen DeGeneres: My Point ... and I Do Have One

USA 2007, 211 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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New edition of this classic book (1996) out of the hand of the world's #1 lesbian comedian: Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles - including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we're so scared of the boogeyman - to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen's ... Weiterlesen